Dona's Book Blog

Thank you to the author, Whitney Cubbison, for an advance digital review copy of WILL THERE BE WINE. These opinions are my own. In Paris, love was oxygen and Austin was gasping for breath. p1 Some things this book does really works, and some don't, for me. To start with, the author uses her setting very well. Like oxygen, like the stuff that keeps all her characters, lead and invisible alike, alive. Paris ! I really had never had any particular desire to visit Paris before encountering Cubbison's decidedly fangirl recreation, that is simultaneously ironically, eye-rollingly judgemental of the place. It was a wonderful place to spend time as a reader, charming and funny. I also like when romance writers use tropes I've never seen before, or if they use common tropes in fresh ways. I'm not going to give away the end of the book, but I just thought the way Cubbision used her primary romance trope, and supported it with other tropes like forbidden love, rea...

Thank you to the author Elizabeth Bass, publishers Kensington Books, and TLC Book Tours, for an advance paperback copy of THE WITCH HITCH. Thank you also to NetGalley for an accomanying widget. All views are mine. When you read as much romance as I do, you ask yourself when you're reading, does the author use the tropes in a fresh way? In a way I just didn't really see coming? In this case, the answer is certainly, "YES," and I related to this book on more than one level! I don't want to give too much away here, so I'll keep it as secret as I can! To start with, I love the "Hate His Family" trope in romedy, and we get a lot of that in this. I really feel for the fmc dealing with her fiance Wes's overbearing family. I mean-- his parents bought them a haunted castle for their wedding gift. Besides being annoying, this is like too cool for real, and I would just never sleep again such a castle. I kid, but I get it! Once my family got the...